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by Valentina Salski You, who pays no mind to my womanhood. You, for whom it is for. Who am I, after all, to believe – even dream – that the sun is for my benefit, that the wine tastes this way only in my torn lips – who am I to wish to sleep inContinue reading “Bathtub”

by Caroline Kessler A woman / loose-hipped in a floor-length      dress sewn entirely from gold-en poppies / sings an answer-less song / what good      is a heart with no oneto love. Her guitar gets lost in her hands. You’re too small      to see properly / your loveroffers to hoist you up, hold you      on his shoulders like your fatherContinue reading “IN SOME VERSION OF YOUR LIFE”

by Joschua Beres the bomb over Hiroshimatook forty-five seconds to falluntil: flash. bang. pop.maybe that helps you realizethe importance of forty-five secondsbecause even if that bomb fellfor forty-five years, it wouldn’t beenough time. but in one millionth of a second.modern American sciencecan birth a second sun just long enoughto prove that popcorn never lasts pastContinue reading “we should all live like the atomic bomb”

by Sean Whitney There are towers of stone and mud and she wants nothing of them, seeing them dirty. She is dirty. She is dirty and the towers are dirty but the towers’ dirt runs deeper than her skin. She spits, not for saliva, but for arrogance, giving back to the ground the only thingContinue reading “Essay Concerning the Importance of Her Hair After a Shower, or: The most beautiful woman to ever be a woman who was beautiful”

by Ross Robbins You must remain inyour place. All orderis cut from belowat the knees, crumple I cannot provemy pastexcept to say moments hover inmy mind thatcould have beenthis morning; flashes: at four years oldbeside a tree. My firststitches. Tearing wallpaper and my dad tearing meout of joy by my armgrowling in my face pastContinue reading “entropy – a measure of the disorder or randomness of a system”

by Codi Suzanne Oliver here to pull noise out of you i’m coming soft you never touch you never came so hard in your life, you’re here for the noise you’re here for the book, the vegetables, the roots, you’re here to pull faggots out of me i’m turning to you i’m rotating into yourContinue reading “untitled poem”

by Rishad Haque the battling begums keep us democratically tornsheikh hasina and khaleda zia,autocratic ruleSway you don’t have the answerswe think of the next mealwe share the mealsthe meals don’t have any valuebut molotov cocktails are paid for by the governmentthe news media keeps us entertainedwe pay attention and we stay scaredwe don’t leave theContinue reading “I’m Not Finished”

by Patrick Hughes the snot settlements of the pastrearranged and carefully maintained for permanent residencelike a handkerchief planned to forever last in two iotasgrizzly voterswill strut out of the wildernessand hope to open up the trashit’s safe stilleverything wants their filltheir confusion shows us howif we ran out of the woodworklike brash votersbears to lockedContinue reading “untitled poem”

by Manuel Arturo Abreu two scotch-tape birds sit on a cigarette butttwo reptilians walk past the birdstwo windows open and say ‘huzzah’two clairvoyants will never admit to wanting to die youngtwo drops of sleep in between my fingerstwo days who are also sisterstwo people buying pizza and dousing it in ranchtwo centipedes too shy toContinue reading “crying should be waged”

by Mike Bushnell google voice automatic transcript: Hey there, this is. My personal. Hmm clean. The reason the black or passport. For bathroom the pictures and they can people in different poses. I guess I can. You know, it’s like, Yeah, the execution and there’s like a bird on you know that some of theContinue reading “untitled poem”